Who assassinated Qaddafi and why?
Mob violence assassinated Qaddafi.
There’s this odd layout to what Qaddafi did over the previous thirty-year period. He took oil profits and divided it into various sectors. Education, healthcare, and infrastructure all got chunks of money. Most Libyans were doing well.
Most Libyans would say that Qaddafi was a moderate nutcase. There’s some evidence that he was heavily medicated around-the-clock and you just never knew what Qaddafi you were getting today.
So when the various rebellions were staged throughout the Middle East in 2009, 2010, 2011, and 2012....various groups formed up and went into a anti-Qaddafi tirade, with the guy killed off. The PhD folks had to come and remark that he might have been the best dictator in the Middle East, but remarkably crazy.
As for the landscape after the execution? Well....the oil groups want stability. There’s a civil war brewing, with various groups trying to establish control. If you go and count ‘groups’, there’s a minimum of twenty mobs-in-waiting to continue the civil war. Some are pro-Islam....some pro-oil....some pro-Qaddafi folks supporting his son. In the middle of this....a bunch of Africans who’ve come to get on the smuggler deal and leave for the EU.